Envelope-case



(No Model.) J" G. LANE' l `ENVELOIBB(MS-E. 110.261,731. Patented July25, 1882.

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JACOB C. LANE, OF ELKHART, INDIANA.

EN'vELoPE-CASE.

SPECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,731, dated July25, 1882,

Application led April 13, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that'l, JACOB C. LANE, of Elkhart, in the county of Elkhartand State of Indiana, have invented a new andlm proved Envelope-Case, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists in a novel construction, arrangement, andcombination, with' a case, of one or more 4racks for holding envelopesor postal-cards 4and a roller or block for supporting and moving towardthe front ofthe case the said envelopes or` postal-cards.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part'ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front view, partly in section, of an apparatus constructedaccording to my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken inthe line .r a: of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one ofthe racks.

A is a case, which may be divided into any number of compartments bymeans of partitions. This case, or each compartment thereof, is providedwith vertical grooves a in the sides, near the front.

B is a rack of wire, constructed as shown in the perspective view, Fig.3, being bent midway of its length, then upward, and then outward, andhaving its ends bent to form hooks b for engagement with the grooves a.

C is a roller, which is placed on the inclined part of the rack, behindthe envelopes, and

. serves to support them in an upright position and to slide them downtoward thefront of the case as the front envelopes are removed. Bygiving the main part of the rack a greater inshaped wire havin g itsends formed into hooks. t

The wire is held with its apex upward, the hooks are engaged with thehorizontal portions b3, and the apex then turned'downward,which has theeffect of pressing the upright portions b2 toward each other.

' The advantage of my invention as a holder for different sizes ofenvelopes or postal-cards and different denominations of stampedenvelopes is that it presents the face of the envelope to the view ofthe user, which is not done in pigeon-hole cases. Consequently mistakesare not made by taking an envelope from the wrong pigeon-hole.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, LettersPatent, is-

The rack B, formed of a wire bent midway of its length, then upward atb2, then horizontally outward `at b3, and then formed into hooks b, incombination with the case A, provided with the grooves la, substantiallyas and for the purpose herein described.

JACOB C. LANE.

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